It’s been a bit of a day today. I spent most of it in pyjamas struggling with one of my big Samizdata rambles, still not finished, and then spent far too much time following a bunch of T20 county cricket games, of which my favourite one was this one. Just look at the Hampshire fall of wickets. I knew you’d be excited. I was going to go out and snap some new photos, but it never happened.

So, it’s quota photo from the archives time:

That was taken, at the Adam Smith Institute itself (although I don’t think they had that blog then), on June 14th 2003, with my ye olde Canon A70, a type of camera which one of my friends still uses! What an old fogey! (I think it’s him, because I think I remember him showing me his Canon A70 the other night when he dropped by for dinner.)

And let’s just savour that bottle label, shall we? Yes we shall:

Profound point warning. Here comes a profound point. If you don’t want to read a profound point, stop reading now!

Profound point: lots of people think the free market is something horrid that you only do when you have to, when socialism cannot be afforded. As soon as the free market has cleared up the mess caused by socialism, it’s back to socialism again. But socialism is crap. It doesn’t matter how much of it you can afford. You shouldn’t buy it! Only the free market is strong and sweet. It doesn’t matter how well your country is doing, you should still stick with the free market!